French ship Africaine

Five ships of the French Navy have carried the name Africaine:

• Africaine, a felucca (1664)
• Africaine, a Preneuse-class frigate (1798–1816)
• Africaine, a 44-gun barque wrecked in 1822
• Africaine (1839–72), a 40-gun frigate
• Africaine, an Aurore-class submarine, constructed started before the war but was not completed until after, scrapped in 1963

In addition

• Africaine, although not a naval vessel, was a French 20-gun corvette whose seizure on 4 May 1804 at Charleston by a British privateer led to a lawsuit that defined the extent of territorial waters as one league from the low tide of the shore, not including shoals that are always underwater.^[1]

See also

• French ship Africain
• HMS Africaine

Citations and references

Citations

References

• Bee, Thomas, United States. District Court (South Carolina), and Francis Hopkinson, Pennsylvania. Court of Admiralty, South Carolina. Court of Admiralty, United States. District Court (Massachusetts) (1810) Reports of cases adjudged in the District court of South Carolina. [1792–1809]. (William P. Farrand and co.).
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 23–24. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. 
• Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 – 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042